Increasing the complexity of penetration testing lab environments

If you have been to a bouldering (rock-climbing) gym before, you would realize how similar a penetration testing lab environment is to an indoor facility filled with climbing walls of varying difficulty. Just like how indoor rock-climbing gyms provide climbers with a controlled environment to exercise and practice their climbing skills, penetration testing labs provide cybersecurity professionals with an isolated environment to practice and perfect their hacking techniques. Both environments challenge users with various types of scenarios with increasing complexity and difficulty to push their limits. Given that these environments have been built to mimic real-world challenges and obstacles, we should expect these environments to evolve and grow in complexity so that users are presented with new challenges to solve.

In this section, we will discuss how we can further evolve and increase the complexity of the penetration...